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I'm trying to download my YT Playlist (157 songs) to a 256GB Flash Drive, and only 4 will play in my 2 USBs in my new Jeep Grand Cherokee HEMI V8. Most download on to the flash as *.opus; only 4 come thru8 as M4A or MP4. The 4 will play, and are the only ones to appear on the playlist. What format should I convert to? Is there fellow FReeper who's done this successfully. I used SaveFromNet.net and can't find any help thru Google, except Online VideoConverter, but keep getting an ERROR message. Is there a better video to...

A Microsoft Corp. executive said yesterday that his company's new office software will comply with a disputed Massachusetts government mandate requiring the use of ''open" data formats.Executives from rival software makers greeted the pledge with skepticism.But Massachusetts' chief information officer, Peter Quinn, who's leading the drive for the new data standard, said the Microsoft proposal will probably meet the state's demands.The Massachusetts standard, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2007, has attracted worldwide attention because it poses a major challenge to Microsoft Office, by far the world's most popular office software program. Up to now, Microsoft Office has used data formats...

Warning. If you read any further, you will find yourself at ground 0.0 of the biggest battle the computer industry has ever seen. It is where the biggest warriors from the proprietary software world, the open standards world, and the open source world are engaged in hand-to-hand combat. At least for the moment, the open source and open standards worlds (the Rebel Alliance) appear to have joined sides against the proprietary warlords, led by Microsoft. Both on and off the field (where negotiators have failed to broker a truce), the engagement has not been pretty. But this is war. For the first time in the...